You could use that link. You can write them letters and emails. Your best bet is to buy from manufacturers that support Linux. If they have a driver for your printer that fully works, buy from them. If not, don't buy from them. That should send a better message.

But unless you tell them why you bought from the competition, how are they going to know ?
If enough people write to Canon & say "I really like the look of your xyz printer, but because you don't support Linux I bought an Acme zzz instead", they might just get the hint.

Provided you have a fairly upto-date GimpPrint 4.x or Gutenprint 5.x, and foomatic if you're using Linux, you shouldn't need to install anything else to get your BJC 250 to work (Although if your distro doesn't do it for you, you'll have to configure a new print queue with the correct driver)

Sorry, you're dead right. i250 & pixma support is in progress but seems to be going slow. You'd need to running the bleeding edge CVS version of GutenPrint to have any hope of it working with a Canon i250, although the PIXMA iP4000 & the S200 have experimental support in the latest 5.0.0-rc2 release.

sweet72 wrote:You could use that link. You can write them letters and emails. Your best bet is to buy from manufacturers that support Linux. If they have a driver for your printer that fully works, buy from them. If not, don't buy from them. That should send a better message.

I sent a comment to Canon that I was considering returning the Canon printer and getting an HP printer because they are better (best?) supported for Linux drivers.